Tax

We provide expert legal advice in relation to all Australian Commonwealth and Western Australian State taxes, including income tax, fringe benefits tax, superannuation, transfer duty, landholder duty, goods and services tax, pay-roll tax, land tax, and international taxes.

Planning & Structuring

We advise on the tax and commercial aspects of structuring and setting up of all forms of commercial arrangements, including partnerships, companies, trusts and joint ventures, charities and not-for-profit ancillary funds.

We advise on the taxation aspects of all kinds of family arrangements, including financial settlements made upon divorce, and succession of family businesses from one generation to the next.

Litigation

We provide tax litigation services to all kinds of taxpayers, including taxation objections, reviews and appeals in the Federal and High Courts, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the WA Supreme Court and the WA State Administrative Tribunal.

We appear as counsel in such matters, and appear in and advise on criminal matters relating to taxation issues.

We provide evidence as experts in relation to taxation issues in the Family Court.

Compliance

We advise in relation to all aspects of tax compliance, on an ongoing or one-off basis as required. Frequent topics of advice include small business concessions, Division 7A of the ITAA 1936, personal services income, international or offshore income derivation, capital gains tax roll-overs, and self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) deeds.

We have particular experience in relation to the making of disclosures to the Australian Taxation Office of offshore income (OVDIs). We have a strong track record of working with the ATO to achieve mutually satisfactory results for our clients.